New Mexico’s oilfield jobs are legendary, but comparatively rare.
The state’s fossil fuel industry spends millions more backing midterm candidates.
Building and construction trade unions would benefit from industrial green policy, but critics warn of fossil fuel subsidies.
Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and California, among others, will drive its success or failure.
Oil and gas money papers the state with industry messages.
‘Mark my words,’ says environment secretary, this will lead to increased air pollution.
Labor opposition could diminish Gov. Newsom’s climate package.
The state risks health and highway funding if it doesn’t pass regulations on oil and gas pollution.
The South Coast air district is investigating dozens of complaints about toxic emissions seen in the ‘shocking’ footage.
Oilman Simon Kukes has more risky idle wells under a state waiver than anyone else.
Oil group eyes strategy to promote in-state drilling as climate-friendly.
The industry-backed bill proposes to freeze the bond amounts that fossil fuel companies are required to put up.
Resignations follow stories from Capital & Main and Type Investigations on faulty permitting system and under-monitoring.
A patchwork of regulations is out of sync with the urgency of the climate crisis, experts say.
Residents challenge regulators’ claims that they can’t account for toxic oil and gas emissions in the San Joaquin Valley.
Economists caution the billion-dollar tax windfall is the boom portion of a boom-bust resource cycle.
The legislation would increase fines for violations at long last, but is getting heavy pushback.
A move by the Valencia County Commission surprises the public and helps a major donor.
Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: let us keep drilling or the state’s education system will collapse.
The oil and gas industry could jeopardize federal funding to clean up the state’s thousands of abandoned and leaking wells.